joe mentioned earnings reports last night from alcoa and yum. costco already out this morning with better than expected results. there's also news expected on chevron, fedex, toyota, microsoft, and best buy among others. we will have all those stories covered. plus, housing is going to be in focus today. it is a key component to the u.s. economic recovery. our guest host this morning understands this well. richard lefrak will be joining us in the next hour. also, we are continuing our week long series, what's working now. dan fuss is going to talk to us about where he's making money in the fixed income world right now. he's got a great record. i believe it's better than 10% over the last 20 years that he's been averaging. also it was a tweet heard around the world. jack welch questioning the jobs report last friday. today he is using a few more than 140 characters to explain. we're going to talk about his op ed. at 8:00 a.m., jack will be calling into the show to talk about things. all of that coming up. on the lighter side of things, we'll be t